Posted on 04/07/2016 1:49:29 PM PDT by Gamecock
The comments weren’t robotic, they were inhuman. I think the most egregious issue with this situation is that the OR staff was not discussing the patient’s ATTITUDE, but her physical looks.
I work with the public in a health care position that requires me to work as fast as possible with complete accuracy. I’ve dealt with people who have bad attitudes. I might turn to a colleague and say something about the patient’s attitude under my breath and move on. I would never think to disparage a patient’s body as they lie vulnerable on the operating table.
I didn’t say anything about robotic, I said the don’t see the CUSTOMER (or in this case PATIENT) as a person anymore.
Once you’re willing to say bad things about a patient they can’t hear you’re willing to say bad things about a patient they can’t hear. If you spent 8 hours a day in that operating room performing the same procedure over and over you’ll say bad things about them. It’s a slippery slope, and it just keeps going down.
So if the OR crew thinks you are a fat slob, that doesn’t affect how they handle the surgery?
Yeah, right.
Does that mean a liberal democrat OR crew could give s-p-e-c-i-a-l care to zero in surgery and lesser care to Trump or Cruz and you would be ok with it?
I get that, but the comments are inexcusable.
Who does that? What type of human denigrates the body of a supine naked stranger on a table that they are about to supposedly help?
I would say the worst type of “human”.
They’ll start shaving people’s heads before surgery...
Lots of people do that. Almost everybody in the service industry does that at some point. Everybody is a bad person sometimes.
If the surgery went well she should be thankful.If I was a juror in a civil suit I wouldn’t give her a nickel.However,I think the surgeon involved should be very,*very*,seriously disciplined by the state’s physician licensing board...perhaps even revoking his license to practice.
The hospital near my in laws used to have nurses who referred to comatose patients by vegetable names rather than their actual names; carrot, potatoe, etc. It stopped after a doctor’s wife was one of the patients who recovered.
Anytime we place our lives in the hands of medical professionals, we should be able to expect basic decency.
The key word that you quoted from me is “attitude”.
The staff didn’t go after her attitude, they went after her body. Big difference. Anyone who works with the public knows that patients/customers can have an off day and be obnoxious. And if you acknowledge that poor attitude briefly and move on that would be considered normal.
But these hospital employees verbally savaged her body. Then they supposedly provided good patient care to that verbally savaged body.
Not buying it.
“I think the surgeon involved should be very,*very*,seriously disciplined by the state’s physician licensing board...perhaps even revoking his license to practice.”
And any other OR staff participating in this event should be fired.
Hmmmm. Wondering how many OR’s would welcome that?
None! And the reason is because they probably (I hope not) behave like the OR staff in this story.
You may have missed an important part of what I was saying. All I care about is that the surgery is successful. The OR can be as catty as they want if that ensures success. I care about their skills.
Well, no. They did not.
You see surgeries are often video recorded and most are observed by students, interns and other observers.
It is done for teacher purposes, liability and also to catch the surgical staff acting like unprofessional jerks.
In this case the hospital should quietly thank her because all it would take is a recording like that when the surgery did not go well to send their medical insurance costs into the stratosphere.
what we say in private is our business only...we can cuss...we can criticize...we can laugh....this woman had no right to record anything....
its professional doing their job and if it eases tension to talk crap, then so be it...
people think lawyers don't talk about us behind closed doors?...or cops?...or anybody?....
what do you do for a living?....I dare say if you deal with human beings at all, you talk about them behind their backs, even if its good stuff....
and how many men here talk about the woman walking down the street?.....shall we go after them and sue them?.....
A funny episode ... I like the Bette Midler episode, also. Just watched the Kramer Hot Tub episode.
“distraught” by comments she secretly recorded hospital staff”
Oops. Criminally chargeable violation of wiretap laws.
Felony.
Offsetting penalties?
[singing] she hid the recorder right in my hair, Louie, Louie, ho ho, me gotta sue now, yah yah yah yah yah yah...
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